Vanmitra

1. About ‘Vanmitra’

'Purpose of ‘Vanmitra’ portal

The website ‘Vanmitra’ has been developed with the objective of effective implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, Rules, 2008 and Amendment Rules, 2012. This portal has been developed keeping in mind the objective of allowing the individuals / groups and villages / padas from the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers to file claims about Individual Forest Rights or Community Forest Rights related to forest land in a smooth fashion, to check the current status of the claims filed and to be able to get the forest rights title (certificate) without any hassles.

Why MKCL has developed Vanmitra system? ?

In time and effective implementation of Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 and Rules, 2008 and Amendment Rules, 2012 is possible with the help of information technology. MKCL has developed 'Vanmitra' system to allow submission of forest rights claims, verification of claims, to achieve unison in the decision making process, to be able to support it as well as for the possible planning and management of recognition of forest rights in the entire State with the help of computer system. For this, guidance has been received from Tribal Research and Training Institute, Pune (TRTI) and support has been made available by Tribal Development Department, Government of Maharashtra. .

What are the benefits of ‘Vanmitra’ system ?

The rights that the claimant villagers / groups or villages / Pada are going to get under this Act are going to be received in minimal time and that too in hassle-free manner. In this, the ‘Village Forest Rights Committee’ that helps the Gram Sabha to file the claim, the ‘Sub-division Level Committee’ that verifies the forest rights claims received from the Village Forest Rights Committees, and the ‘District Level Committee’ that gives the final decision on these claims, shall be able to perform their work in a planned manner. The claims shall not be stalled anywhere due to the able support from Information and Technology. At the same time, the current status of the claims also can be known.